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AgingAmerican

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18. Many programmers consider VB a 'toy' language

Reply to ChromeFoundry (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 13, 2012, 11:33 PM

Oct 2012

Even though VB.NET and C# essentially compile to the same thing. I agree that VB is on the way out, has been for ten years. A lot of people cut their teeth on that language, myself included.

Never did any COBOL. Sounds like fun debugging old code though, I got really good at debugging other peoples code when I tutored programming in college.

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Anyone (like me) still in the 20th Century writing COBOL? [View all] Kennah Feb 2012 OP

Spent four years doing conversions from COBOL. ManiacJoe Feb 2012 #1

Last time I wrote COBAL it was on punched cards (1980?) OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #2

Converted a lot of COBOL to .Net ChromeFoundry Feb 2012 #3

I was wondering about the future of VB ... Kennah Feb 2012 #4

VB.NET will be around for a long time EvolveOrConvolve Feb 2012 #5

I will inherit some VB6 Kennah Feb 2012 #6

"they used a Rapid Application Development model like VB to launch C#" hootinholler Mar 2012 #13

VB.net AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #17

Many programmers consider VB a 'toy' language AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #18

Not me personally naragdaban Feb 2012 #7

I've never WRITTEN it, but always been able to read it - turn the listing upside down. HopeHoops Mar 2012 #8

Haven't written in COBOL in years, SnowCritter Mar 2012 #9

Some days, writing COBOL feels like a criminal offense Kennah Mar 2012 #11

Well, it is - SnowCritter Mar 2012 #12

Spam deleted by TBF (MIR Team) sammuel Mar 2012 #10

RPG Stroked Jun 2012 #14

RPG is probably as rare as Assembler Kennah Jun 2012 #15

I did COBOL for 10 years until I got the RIF in December. valerief Aug 2012 #16